In the middle ages, when a fugitive entered a church and screamed “in Asylum” he was immediately given protection and immunity by the priest. The authorities had no jurisdiction within the church. From there evolved what we all know today as diplomatic asylum. “In Asylum” is a latin word meaning “the sacredhost”

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Gavriel Navarro

Gavriel Navarro is a Spanish-born poet, musician and artist who grew up in Venezuela and England. After graduating with a degree in Fine Arts and Graphic Design, he spent eleven years in the Amazon as a hunter, an Eco-tourism guide and apprentice of shamanic wisdom. The multilingual Navarro now makes his home in Japan where he applies the lessons of his peripatetic life through film-making and transcendent poetry...